strapi permanent tokens

strapi does not support permanent tokens out of the box. You may need to use permanent tokens for devops integration.

Modify this file /plugins/users-permissions/services/Jwt.js to make strapi support permanent tokens.

diff --git a/plugins/users-permissions/services/Jwt.js b/plugins/users-permissions/services/Jwt.js
index f59855de094399e2674fbea2bf83407f90483983..80a5ec23aa231f35130ed43e95e487dea80546ee 100644
--- a/plugins/users-permissions/services/Jwt.js
+++ b/plugins/users-permissions/services/Jwt.js
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ module.exports = {
     return this.verify(token);
   },
 
-  issue: (payload, jwtOptions = {}) => {
-    _.defaults(jwtOptions, defaultJwtOptions);
+  issue: (payload, jwtOptions = {}, useDefault = true) => {
+    if (useDefault) {
+      _.defaults(jwtOptions, defaultJwtOptions);
+    }
     return jwt.sign(
       _.clone(payload.toJSON ? payload.toJSON() : payload),
       process.env.JWT_SECRET || _.get(strapi.plugins['users-permissions'], 'config.jwtSecret') || 'oursecret',
@@ -61,5 +63,30 @@ module.exports = {
         }
       );
     });
+  },
+
+  // This method is to be used in strapi console
+  generatePermanentToken: async (identifier) => {
+    const emailRegExp = /^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
+    const query = {};
+
+    // Check if the provided identifier is an email or not.
+    const isEmail = emailRegExp.test(identifier);
+
+    // Set the identifier to the appropriate query field.
+    if (isEmail) {
+      query.email = identifier.toLowerCase();
+    } else {
+      query.username = identifier;
+    }
+
+    const users = await strapi.plugins['users-permissions'].services.user.fetchAll(query);
+    if (users.length == 0) {
+      console.log('Cannot find the user');
+    } else {
+      let user = users[0];
+      let token = strapi.plugins['users-permissions'].services.jwt.issue(_.pick(user.toJSON ? user.toJSON() : user, ['_id', 'id']), {}, false);
+      console.log(`Token is ${token}`);
+    }
   }
-};
+};
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Use generatePermanentToken method to generate a permanent token in strapi console.